Research activity information

• Giving directions in virtual reality: Resources for managing fragmented perception

  Tim Greer, Adam Brandt, Zachary Nanbu

  Lead, Elsevier BV, Jun. 2026, Linguistics and Education, 93, 101491, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Occasioning and re-occasioning learnables in a cooking class

  Tim Greer, Zachary Nanbu

  Abstract This study uses multimodal conversation analysis to explore “re-occasionings” in multilingual interaction recorded at a cooking school in Okinawa, Japan. We first examine the initial occurrence of a phrase that is treated as learnable by the recipients. We then consider how successive (re)orientations to shared interactional history with this phrase shape the trajectory of the activity across a period of 15 minutes. L1 contributions make the learners’ online (mis)understandings amenable to repair and occasion other formulations as requiring clarification. By embedding learnables within complex multimodal gestalts, the instructor provides the learners with further opportunities to hear the target phrase and understand it beyond its base definition. The learners display their evolving understanding of the learnables, which contributes to their socialization in terms of language use, cooking proficiency, and familiarity with the classroom pedagogical approach.

  John Benjamins Publishing Company, Oct. 2025, Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 16(1) (1), 132 - 167

  [Refereed][Invited]

  Scientific journal


• Recruitment During Table-Cooked Meals: Foregrounding and Backgrounding Offers and Acts of Assistance Within Multi-Party Talk

  Tim Greer

  At Japanese yakiniku-style restaurants, customers grill meat at the table and then often offer it to each other. Such offers are a form of recruitment—the outcome of various interactional methods for eliciting or soliciting involvement. Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis, this study focuses on sequences of lingua franca English talk between three Japanese people and their French guest in one such restaurant setting. The analysis explores dual involvements in which food-related offers are interactionally backgrounded in deference to primary talk about other topics. The cooking party times their offers to gaps in the primary talk, sometimes delaying the offer to insert it at a sequentially favorable juncture to better mobilize acceptance from the recipient. The study provides insight into the integrated roles of temporality, embodiment, materiality, and participation in the mundane, yet finely coordinated, accomplishment of attentiveness to the needs of others during table-cooked meals.

  University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress), Jun. 2025, East Asian Pragmatics, 10(2) (2), 162 - 185, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Embodied Mapping: Negotiating Epistemic Access during Initial Place Reference

  Zachary Nanbu, Tim Greer

  Corresponding, Nov. 2024, Research on Language and Social Interaction, 57(4) (4), 345 - 371, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Grammar-in-Interaction and its place in assessing interactional competence

  Tim Greer

  Lead, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Mar. 2023, Applied Pragmatics, 5(2) (2), 202 - 207

  [Refereed][Invited]

  Scientific journal


• Classroom-based conversation analytic research: Theoretical and applied perspectives on pedagogy (Silvia Kunitz, Numa Markee and Olcay Sert)

  Tim Greer

  2023, 45(1) (1), 158 - 160

  [Refereed][Invited]

  Scientific journal


• Creating obstacles to progressivity: Task expansion in second language role plays

  Nanbu, Zachary, Greer, Tim

  2023, TESOL Quarterly

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership.

  Greer, Tim, Wagner, Johannes

  Lead, 2023, Second Language Research

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Visualizing emergent turn construction: Seeing writing while speaking.

  Greer, Tim, Nanbu, Zachary

  Lead, 2023, Modern Language Journal, 106(S1) (S1), 69 - 88, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Proffering absurd candidate formulations in the pursuit of progressivity

  Amar, Cheikhna, Nanbu, Zachary, Greer, Tim

  Oct. 2022, Classroom Discourse, 13(3) (3), 264 - 292, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Multimodal action formation in second language talk: Japanese speakers' use of the gassho gesture in English apology sequences

  Tim Greer

  Corresponding, Feb. 2022, Social Interaction: Video-based Studies of Human Sociality, 5(1) (1), English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• How do raters understand rubrics for assessing L2 interactional engagement? A comparative study of CA- and non-CA-formulated performance descriptors

  Sandlund, E, Greer, T

  Last, 2020, Papers in Language Testing and Assessment, 9(1) (1), 132 - 166, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Inscribed objects as resources for achieving progressivity in lesson plan talk

  Tim Greer, Christopher Leyland

  Corresponding, 2020, Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 14(2) (2), 200 - 229

  [Refereed]


• Initiating and delivering news-of-the-day tellings: Interactional competence as joint development

  Tim Greer

  2019, Journal of Pragmatics, 146, 150 - 164, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• "And boys wore gakuran": Mot juste formulations as recalibration repair in bilingual interaction

  GREER TIMOTHY

  Oct. 2018, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Muliculturalism, 24(1) (1), 26 - 47, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Learning to say grace

  GREER TIMOTHY

  May 2018, Social Interaction:Video-bases Studies of Human Sociality, 1(1) (1), English

  [Refereed][Invited]

  Scientific journal


• Naming an activity: Arriving at recognitionals in team-teacher planning talk

  Tim Greer

  Based on a video-recorded corpus of pre-class planning sessions, this study focuses on how team-teachers from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds accomplish the interactional task of identifying and explaining pedagogical activities they will later teach together during an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) lesson. Since a basic issue for these teachers is arriving a

  2018, Journal of Pragmatics, 126, 52 - 67, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Interactional competence in Japanese as an additional language: An overview

  GREER TIMOTHY

  National Foreign Language Resource Center, Dec. 2017, Interactional competence in Japanese as an additional language (Pragmatics & Interaction Series), 4, 369 - 407, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• L1 speaker turn design and emergent familiarity in second language Japanese interaction

  GREER TIMOTHY

  Whenever we meet someone for the first time we adjust the way we talk based on our emergent understandings of our interlocutor and in subsequent meetings we may greet them in a different way, given what we now know about them. The way we formulate each turn makes public our growing familiarity with the person to whom we are talking. This may be displayed through the politeness

  National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2017, Interactional competence in Japanese as an additional language, 369 - 407, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Learner initiative in action: Post-expansion sequences in a novice ESL survey interview task

  Tim Greer

  Sep. 2016, Linguistics & Education, 35, 78 - 87, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Dropping the devil’s advocate: One novice language tester’s shifting interactional practices across a series of speaking tests

  Christopher Leyland, Tim Greer, Ellen Rettig-Miki

  Routledge, Jan. 2016, Classroom Discourse, 7(1) (1), 85 - 107, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Appealing to a broker: Initiating third-person repair in mundane second language interaction

  GREER TIMOTHY

  2015, Novitas ROYAL, 9(1) (1), 1 - 14, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Forward-oriented medium repair in Japanese/English bilingual interaction

  GREER TIMOTHY, Sasuga Mayuri

  JALT Bilingualism SIG, Oct. 2014, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, 20(1) (1), 1 - 16, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Designing an Interaction-centered Classroom

  GREER TIMOTHY

  JALT CUE SIG, 2014, OnCue Journal, 7(1) (1), 40 - 46, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Word search sequences in bilingual interaction: Codeswitching and embodied orientation toward shifting participant constellations

  Tim Greer

  Oct. 2013, Journal of Pragmatics, 57, 100 - 117, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Establishing a pattern of dual-receptive language alternation: Insights from a series of successive haircuts

  GREER TIMOTHY

  2013, Australian Journal of Communication, 40(2) (2), 47 - 61, English

  [Refereed][Invited]

  Scientific journal


• ACCOMPLISHING MULTIETHNIC IDENTITY IN MUNDANE TALK: HALF-JAPANESE TEENAGERS AT AN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

  Tim Greer

  Sep. 2012, PRAGMATICS, 22(3) (3), 371 - 390, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Identity in Interculturality: Using (lackof) cultural knowledge to disalign with an identity category

  GREER Tim

  Mar. 2010, The Language Teacher, 34(3) (3), 3 - 8, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Receipt through Repetition

  Tim Greer, Vivian Bussinguer, Jeff Butterfield, Agnes Mischinger

  JALT, May 2009, JALT Journal, 31・1・5-34(1) (1), 5 - 34, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Pronunciation Tasks for Academic Study Skills

  Tim Greer

  Sep. 2008, JALT2007 Conference Proceedings, 5, English

  [Refereed]

  International conference proceedings


• Accomplishing difference in bilingual interaction: Translation as backwards-oriented medium-repair

  Tim Greer

  2008, MULTILINGUA-JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL AND INTERLANGUAGE COMMUNICATION, 27(1-2) (1-2), 99 - 127, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Suppressing Laughter in the Display of (Dis)affiliation

  Tim Greer, Usui Yoshiko, Kato Toki, Taniguchi Hitomi, Vivian Bussinger S Andrade

  Kobe University, Mar. 2006, Journal of School of Languages and Communication, Kobe University, 2・1・15, 27 - 42, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• The Multi-Ethnic Paradox: Towards a fluid notion of being 'haafu'

  GREER, Timothy S

  全国語学教育学会バイリンガリズム研究部会, Oct. 2005, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, 11, p.1-18(1) (1), 1 - 18, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Four studies into multi-ethnic identity in Japan

  GREER, Timothy S

  Aug. 2005, JALT2004 Conference Proceedings, , 全1305(949p-961p), English

  [Refereed]

  International conference proceedings


• Applying Conversation Analysis to Non-Native and Bilingual Talk

  HOSODA, KASPER, GREER, BARROWS, CHARLEBOIS

  Aug. 2005, JALT2004 Conference Proceedings, , 全1305(485p-499p), English

  [Refereed]

  International conference proceedings


• Co-constructing Identity: The use of 'haafu' by a group of bilingual multi-ethnic Japanese teenagers

  GREER, Timothy S

  May 2005, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism Arizona State University, p. 948-963, English

  [Refereed]

  International conference proceedings


• A quick way to improve /r/ and /l/ pronunciation

  GREER, Timothy S

  Aug. 2004, The Internet TESL Journal, X・8, online, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Using Self Appraisal to Assess a Disparate Group of Learners

  GREER, Timothy S

  Apr. 2004, The Language Teacher, 28.4, 19-20, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Transcription Approaches to Multilingual Discourse Analysis

  GREER, Timothy S

  Jan. 2004, Proceedings of The Kyoto JALT Pan-SIG conference., , p.46-50, English

  [Refereed]

  International conference proceedings


• Haafu empty or haafu full? An applied conversation analysis of multi-ethnic Japanese attitudes towards the word haafu

  GREER, Timothy S

  Nov. 2003, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, 9.1, p.1-23, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• Socio-Interactional Approaches to Understanding Codeswitching

  GREER, Timothy S

  北海道大学英語英米文学研究会, 2003, The Northern Review, 31.1, 12月28日(31) (31), 13 - 28, English

  Scientific journal


• What Should I Call You? Self-applied and Other-applied referents for biracial Japanese

  GREER, Timothy S

  Dec. 2001, JALT Hokkaido Proceedings, , 29-36, English

  [Refereed]

  International conference proceedings


• Half, Double or Somewhere In-between? Multi-faceted identities among biracial Japanese

  GREER, Timothy S

  Nov. 2001, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, 7.1, p.1-17, English

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

• Scandinavian bilingual and L2 interaction: A view from afar

  Tim Greer

  2013, International Journal of Bilingualism, 17(2) (2), 237 - 244, English

  [Refereed][Invited]

  Introduction scientific journal


• Part Asian 100% Hapa

  Timothy S Greer

  Nov. 2006, The Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, 12 1 103-105, English

  [Refereed]

  Introduction scientific journal


• Dangerous English: Swearwords, taboo language and the EFL learner

  GREER, Timothy S

  Hokkaido University, Jul. 2001, Irwin, M., (ed.) The English You Didn’t Learn in School. Hokkaido University: Language and Culture Studies Series 43., , 7月26日, 7 - 25, English

  [Refereed]

  Others


• Authentic or Contrived? An analysis of the rhetorical discourse features evident in written texts used in a beginning ESL class

  GREER, Timothy S

  Mar. 2001, The Journal of Otaru Junior College, XXX.1, 15-28, English

  Report scientific journal


• Bilingual Education Programs. A comparison of three classroom models

  GREER, Timothy S

  小樽短期大学, Mar. 2000, The Journal of Otaru Junior College, XXIX.1, 27-37(29) (29), 27 - 37, English

  Report scientific journal


• Letter Chains. A first lesson in using web-based email

  GREER, Timothy S

  2000, Ryan, K. (ed.) Recipes for Wired Teachers Tokyo: JALT CALL SIG., , 58-59, English

  [Refereed]

  Others

• Introduction: The impact of CA on applied linguistics research. In The Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis

  Burdelski, Matthew, Greer, Tim

  Joint work, May 2026


• The Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis

  Matthew Burdelski, Tim Greer

  Joint editor, Routledge, May 2026, ISBN: 9781032730011


• Storytelling in Multilingual Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective

  Greer, T, Ogawa, Y

  Joint work, Managing peripheral recipiency in triadic multilingual storytelling, Routledge, Jun. 2022


• Dealing with disaligned and misaligned recipiency: Storytelling in homestay contexts

  Joint work, 337-374, Springer, 2022


• Managing peripheral recipiency in triadic multilingual storytelling. In J. Wong & H. Z. Waring (Eds). Storytelling in multilingual interaction;A conversation analysis perspective;Routledge

  Greer, T. Ogawa

  Contributor, Routledge, Mar. 2021, ISBN: 9780367139216


• Second Language Pragmatics and English Language Education in East Asia

  Greer, T, Nanbu, Z

  Joint work, General and explicit test prompts: Some consequences for topic management in paired EFL discussion tests, Routledge, Dec. 2020


• General and explicit test prompts: Some consequences for topic management in paired EFL discussion tests. In C. Lee (Ed.). Second language pragmatics and English language education in East Asia (pp. 194-234).

  Greer, T. & Nanbu, Z.

  Routledge, Dec. 2020, ISBN: 9780367443115


• Noticing words in the wild. In J. Hellermann, S. Eskildsen, S. Pekarek Doehler, A. Piirainen Marsh (Eds.), Conversation analytic research on learning-in-action: The complex ecology of interaction in the wild

  Greer, T.

  Contributor, Springer, Nov. 2019, ISBN: 9783030221645


• Conversation Analytic Perspectives on English Language Learning, Teaching and Testing in Global Contexts

  GREER TIMOTHY

  Joint work, Multilingual Matters, Mar. 2019, English

  Scholarly book


• Closing up testing: Interactional orientation to a timer during a paired EFL proficiency test. In H. T. Nguyen & T. Malabarba (Eds.) Conversation Analytic Perspectives on English Language Learning, Teaching and Testing in Global Contexts (pp. 159-190).

  Greer, T.

  Contributor, Multilingual Matters, Feb. 2019, ISBN: 9781788922883


• Conversation analytic research on learning-in-action: The complex ecology of L2 interaction in the wild

  Tim Greer

  Joint work, Noticing words in the wild, Springer, 2019


• Hapa Japan

  GREER TIMOTHY

  Contributor, Kaya Press, Mar. 2017, English

  Scholarly book


• 英語百科

  GREER TIMOTHY

  Others, 大修館, 2017, Japanese

  Dictionary or encycropedia


• Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

  GREER TIMOTHY

  Editor, JALT Bilingualism SIG, 2017, English

  Scholarly book


• Interactional Competence in Japanese as an Additional Language

  GREER TIMOTHY

  Joint editor, National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2017, English

  Scholarly book


• Friendship and Peer Culture in Multilingual Settings

  GREER TIMOTHY

  Others, Emerald, 2016, English, Purpose With an extensive range of information available at the swipe of a finger, the smartphone has become a ubiquitous tool for augmenting conversation. Users of English as a lingua franca (ELF) often rely on such technology to help establish friendships by using them to sustain intersubjectivity. But how do they manage the multiple involvements this entails, such as partici

  Scholarly book


• Emotion in Multilingual Settings

  GREER TIMOTHY

  Others, John Benjamins, 2016, English, Based on a collection of cases taken from 12 hours of video-recorded interaction, this study examines some of the ways that Japanese novice L2 speakers of English employ prosodic variations of the information receipt particle “oh” to socially accomplish awe in L2 (English) interaction. “Oh” has been widely recognized in Conversation Analysis as a change-of-state token (Heritag, ISBN: 9789027256713

  Scholarly book


• Pursuing a relevant response in OPI roleplays

  GREER TIMOTHY, Okada Yusuke

  Joint work, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2013, English, ISBN: 9781137352132

  Scholarly book


• Pragmatics and language learning (Vol. 13)

  GREER TIMOTHY, Tatsuki Donna, Roever Carsten

  Others, University of Hawai'i, National Foreign Language Resource Center, Apr. 2013, English, "Pragmatic awareness of Japanese EFL learners in relation to individual difference factors: A cluster analytic approach."(pp.245-265)を担当。, ISBN: 9780983581642

  Scholarly book


• Pragmatics and Language Learning

  GREER TIMOTHY

  Joint editor, National Foreign Language Resource Center (Honolulu), 2013, English, ISBN: 9780983581642

  Scholarly book


• The What? Clarifying meaning with partial-repeat WH questions

  GREER Tim

  Joint work, JALT Pragmatics SIG, Dec. 2012, English

  Scholarly book


• Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

  Tim Greer

  Joint work, JALT Bilingualism SIG, Oct. 2010, English

  Scholarly book


• Observing Talk: Conversation Analytic Studies into Second Language Learning

  Tim Greer

  Editor, JALT Pragmatics SIG, Oct. 2010, English

  Scholarly book


• Pragmatics and Language Learning

  Tim Greer

  Joint work, University of Hawai'i Press, Jul. 2010, English

  Scholarly book


• "I don't trust you but could you put it like this?" Accomplishing (non)nativeness in bilingual interaction

  Tim Greer

  Single work, Journal of the School of Languages and Communication, Kobe University, Apr. 2008, English

  Scholarly book


• Accomplishing Identity in Bilingual Interaction: Codeswitching practices among a group of multiethnic Japanese teenagers

  Greer Timothy

  Single work, University of Southern Queensland, Australia., Sep. 2007, English

  Others


• Crown Plus 2

  YAMAMOTO, Shiro, WILSON, Brendan, GREER, Timothy, YAMAYA, Izumi

  Joint work, 三省堂, Apr. 2007, Japanese

  Textbook


• "Part Asian _100% Hapa" (Kip Fulbeck)

  GREER, Timothy

  Joint work, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, Nov. 2006, English

  Scholarly book


• Crown Plus 1

  YAMAMOTO, Shiro, WILSON, Brendan, GREER, Timothy, ISHII, Tomoko, YAMAYA, Izumi

  Joint work, 三省堂, Apr. 2006, English

  Textbook


• Crown Plus 1

  Timothy S Greer

  Joint work, Sanseido, Mar. 2006, English

  Textbook


• Dangerous English: Swearwords, taboo language and the EFL learner

  Timothy S Greer

  Single work, Hokkaido University, Jul. 2001, English

  Scholarly book


• Letter Chains: A first lesson in using web-based email

  Timothy S Greer

  Joint work, JAKT CALL SIG, May 2000, English

  Scholarly book

• "This is called pappardelle": Multilingual reference practices in an English cooking class in Japan.

  Tim Greer

  9th CAN Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction. Hanoi University of Industry, Vietnam, Mar. 2026, English

  Oral presentation


• Recruitment during table-cooked meals: Foregrounding and backgrounding offers and acts of assistance.

  Tim Greer

  International Pragmatics Association. University of Queensland, Australia, English

  Oral presentation


• L2 learning in action: Participation, membership and the competences that sustain them

  Tim Greer

  Symposium: Bridging Pragmatic Competence and Interactional Competence, Jun. 2025, English

  Oral presentation


• On recycling and cannibalization: The interactional acquisition of an expression in context

  Tim Greer

  8th CAN Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, 1901, English

  Oral presentation


• Giving directions in a virtual world: Resources for managing fragmented perception

  Tim Greer

  4th Conference on Discourse, Culture, Interaction (DCI4), Dec. 2024

  Oral presentation


• Explicit grammar teaching moments in mundane L2 talk

  Tim Greer

  4th ICOP-L2 Conference, Jun. 2024

  Oral presentation


• On materiality, morphability and ephemerality in L2 role-plays: Enlisting environmental objects and their mimed counterparts

  Tim Greer, Eric Hauser, Zack Nanbu

  ICOP-L2, Jun. 2024

  Oral presentation


• Cooking, offering and eating together: Foregrounding and backgrounding activity within multi-party talk

  Tim Greer

  7th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, May 2024, English

  Oral presentation


• Strong and weak displays of understanding and learning in mundane L2 talk

  Tim Greer

  Thinking, Doing, Learning, Jun. 2024

  Oral presentation


• L2 sidebar talk and distributed perception in a virtual reality game

  Tim Greer

  6th CAN Asia Symposium on Second Language Interaction, May 2023

  Oral presentation


• Collaboratively imagining what another is seeing: L2 sidebar talk in a virtual reality game

  Tim Greer

  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, May 2023

  Invited oral presentation


• Tokyo Global Gateway and the effectiveness of experience-based learning

  Motoko Nagao, Tim Greer

  19th International Session of the Transcultural Management Society, May 2023

  Invited oral presentation


• Marked re-occasionings of learnables in a cooking-for-learning context

  Tim Greer, Zachary Nanbu

  American Association of Applied Linguistics, Mar. 2023

  Nominated symposium


• Participation on the periphery

  Greer, Tim

  ICOP-L2, 2022, English

  [Invited]

  Keynote oral presentation


• Teaching assistants as interactional mediators.

  Greer, Tim

  5th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, May 2022, English

  Oral presentation


• “I don't know word”: How L2 learners recruit assistance to address reading difficulties.

  Amar, Cheihhna, Greer, Tim

  5th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, May 2022, English

  Oral presentation


• Conversation Analysis (CA)-informed language assessment

  Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University Sokla, Thailand, Feb. 2022, English

  Public discourse


• Designing Obstacles to Progressivity.

  Tim Greer

  Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England, Feb. 2022, English

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• Conversation Analysis: How can it help with English language teaching?

  Tim Greer

  Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University Sokla, Jan. 2022, English

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• General and explicit test prompts: Their consequences for turn-taking and topic management in paired EFL discussion tests.

  Nanbu, Zachary, Greer, Tim

  AILA World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Aug. 2021, English

  Oral presentation


• Coaxing competence: "Feigned" non-understanding in roleplay interaction

  Greer, Tim

  AILA 2020 Congress, 2021, English

  [Invited]

  Oral presentation


• Visualizing turn construction: Seeing writing while speaking

  Tim Greer, Zachary Nanbu

  International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) conference. Winterthur, Switzerland, (online), Jul. 2021, English

  Nominated symposium


• Study abroad interactions in the life world.

  Tim Greer, Johannes Wagner

  International Pragmatics Verbal/Visual Interaction (MOVIN) conference, Jun. 2021, English

  Nominated symposium


• "So canoe": On the expert deployment of minimal linguistic resources

  Tim Greer, Zachary Nanbu

  CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, online, Mar. 2021, English

  Oral presentation


• Using a conversation analytic exemplar-based rubric to assess engagement in a paired EFL test

  Tim Greer

  7th British Council New Directions in English Language Assessment, Dec. 2019, English

  Oral presentation


• Sequentiality, Contingency and responsiveness: A conversation analytic take on student engagement in EFL discussion test contexts

  ALAA conference, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 25-27 November., Nov. 2019, English

  Oral presentation


• Operationalizing engagement: Evidence from test raters' deliberations

  Tim Greer

  2nd ICOP-L2 conference, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden, May 2019, English

  Oral presentation


• Embodying gradations of knowledge in novice EFL conversation

  Tim Greer, Zachary Nanbu

  2nd ICOP-L2 conference, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden, May 2019, English

  Oral presentation


• Mapping understanding: Embodied action and place reference in second language interaction

  Tim Greer, Zachary Nanbu

  3rd CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction; Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, May 2019, English

  Oral presentation


• Rater understandings of rubrics for assessing L2 interactional competence: A comparative study of study of CA- and non-CA-formulated performance descriptors.

  Tim Greer, Erica Sandlund

  American Association of Applied Linguistics, Mar. 2019, English, Atlanta, USA, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Assessing engagement in EFL oral tests

  GREER TIMOTHY

  JALT International Conference, Nov. 2018, English, Granship Shizuoka, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Aligning, disaligning and misaligning with a telling

  GREER TIMOTHY

  Australasian Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, Nov. 2018, English, Macau University, International conference

  Oral presentation


• "Wait, what?" (re)initiating repair on a trouble source

  GREER TIMOTHY

  JALT International Conference, Nov. 2018, English, Granship Shizuoka, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Pre-emptive self-reformulation in homestay dinner-table talk

  GREER TIMOTHY

  JALT Study Abroad SIG Conference, Sep. 2018, English, Notre Dame Women's University, Kyoto, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Closing up testing: Orientation to a timer during a paired EFL oral proficiency test

  GREER TIMOTHY

  International Conference of Conversation Analysis (ICCA), Jul. 2018, English, Loughborough University, UK, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Enlisting environmentally accessible objects to explain words

  GREER TIMOTHY

  CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, May 2018, English, Kyoto, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Explaining Japanese culture and language in a homestay context: A multimodal micro-longitudinal investigation

  GREER TIMOTHY

  American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Mar. 2018, English, Chicago, USA, When Japanese students travel abroad for short-term study tours, one of their common concerns is how best to introduce aspects of Japanese culture to their homestay host families. This study uses multimodal conversation analysis to track the mealtime interaction during one such homestay video-recorded in Australia in 2016. The analysis focuses in particular on the multimodal re, International conference

  [Invited]

  Nominated symposium


• Shifting Constellations in Triadic L2 Interaction

  GREER TIMOTHY

  JALT International Conference, Nov. 2017, English, Tsukuba Convention Hall, Japan, This presentation will use multi-modal Conversation Analysis to examine video-recordings of triadic L2 interaction in hairdressing settings. The focus will be on third-person repair sequences in which a peripheral stylist who is observing the cut momentarily shifts the participant constellation to take part in a conversation between the main stylist and the client in order to c, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Multiple Involvements in Test Closings

  GREER TIMOTHY

  JALT International Conference, Nov. 2017, English, Tsukuba Convention Hall, Japan, This presentation will explore how oral proficiency test-takers in an EFL context orient to the institutional nature of the test through their talk. The dataset consists of 73 five-minute discussion tests video-recorded among pairs of first-year students at a Japanese university. The test aims to engage the students in free talk about one of eight topics covered in class. A tim, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Initiating and Delivering News of the Day: Interactional Competence as Joint-Development

  GREER TIMOTHY

  International Pragmatics Association, Jul. 2017, English, Belfast, UK, One common interactional activity that forms part of the nightly ritual in many family groups involves delivering news of the day. Often initiated with formulations such as "How was your day?", co-members of a family (or similar group) will tell each other stories concerning matters and events that have happened to them during the period they have been apart. On the surface thi, International conference

  [Invited]

  Nominated symposium


• Naming an Activity: Arriving at Recognitionals in Team-teacher Planning Talk

  GREER TIMOTHY

  CAN-Asia Symposium, May 2017, English, Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Learning to say grace: A micro-longitudinal study of interactional competences in a family-specific speech event

  GREER TIMOTHY

  ICOP L2 Conference, Jan. 2017, English, Neuchatel University, Switzerland, Children in bilingual families are often called upon to explain social mores and acculturate outsiders into their cultural practices. This study aims to shed light on some of the ways this is accomplished interactionally by observing how a Mexican immigrant family in Australia socialises a Japanese visitor into their family practice of saying grace. The study adopts a longitud, International conference

  [Invited]

  Nominated symposium


• Learning to say grace

  GREER TIMOTHY

  JALT International Conference, Nov. 2016, English, Nagoya, This study uses longitudinal conversation analysis to track one Japanese homestay student's acculturation into the cultural ritual of saying grace. Based on a detailed analysis of a series of video-recorded dinner table conversations, the presentation will demonstrate how the homestay student moves from peripheral observer to a more active participant in this community of pract, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Apologies and stakes in L2 interaction

  GREER TIMOTHY

  JALT International Conference, Nov. 2016, English, Nagoya, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Nominated symposium


• Translating the International University to the Local Community

  GREER TIMOTHY

  UK-Japan Seminar on Intercultural Communication and Internationa Universities, Sep. 2016, English, Newcastle University, UK, Universities in the 21st Century are increasingly globalized institutions that cater to an international community of scholars. However, such communities do not exist in a vacuum, and quite often students from outside the host country find themselves in situations where they have to explain details about the university to local people who are not affiliated with it. This can le, International conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• Apologies in Homestay Contexts

  GREER TIMOTHY

  JALT Study Abroad SIG Conference, Sep. 2016, English, Lakeland University, Tokyo, Living in a homestay means that students will inevitably make social mistakes, and many pre-sojourn language courses therefore teach them ways to apologize in the target language. But how do Japanese learners of English fare when they need to say sorry in real situations? This study uses the micro-socio-interactional approach known as Conversation Analysis (CA) to examine a cor, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Multiple Involvements: Learners using Smartphones

  GREER TIMOTHY

  JALT PanSIG Conference, May 2016, English, 全国語学学会, Meio University, Okinawa, The smartphone has become a ubiquitous tool for augmenting conversation. This presentation uses multimodal Conversation Analysis to investigate the way two learners, one Japanese and the other Indonesian, incorporate smartphones into their lingua franca English interaction. The analysis focuses particularly on their use of the smartphone in forward-oriented repair, including ho, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Multi-modal L2 Interaction

  GREER TIMOTHY

  JALT PanSIG Conference, May 2016, English, Meio University, Okinawa, Interaction, including second language interaction, involves more than just linguistic features of talk such as grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. Face-to-face communication also consists of a range of embodied practices, including gaze, posture, proximity, gesture, and use of physical objects. Layered over and within the talk, the complex nature of multimodal interaction p, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Nominated symposium


• Pre-enactment and the use of physical artifacts in pre-class planning discussions

  GREER TIMOTHY, Leyland Chris

  JALT Okinawa Conference, Dec. 2015, English, Naha, Okinawa, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• Turn design and emergent familiarity in L2 Japanese talk

  GREER TIMOTHY

  JALT Conference, Nov. 2015, English, Shizuokoa, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Progressing talk through joint focus of attention to a textual object: Topic shift in team teacher lesson planning meetings

  GREER TIMOTHY

  5th International Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, Nov. 2015, English, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy,, International conference

  [Invited]

  Nominated symposium


• Physical artifacts and ‘pre-enactment’ in team-teacher planning discussions

  GREER TIMOTHY

  IIEMCA, Aug. 2015, English, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, Co-present participants will sometimes orient to a written artifact (such as a book or a computer screen) as a means of furthering the talk. This sort of action commonly relies on a multimodal combination of both embodied and spoken interactional practices, and elements of the written language that are available to the participants via the artifact can subsequently become part, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Self-addressed Receipt in Forward-oriented Repair

  GREER TIMOTHY

  International Pragmatics Association, Jul. 2015, English, Antwerp, Belgium, International conference

  [Invited]

  Nominated symposium


• Abandoning repair

  GREER TIMOTHY

  JALT PanSIG conference, May 2015, English, Kobe, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Stoking the fire: TA follow-up talk in group discussion tests

  GREER TIMOTHY, Leyland Chris

  American Association of Applied Linguistics, Mar. 2015, English, Toronto, Canada, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Recalibration in bilingual interaction: Other-medium formulations as precision

  GREER TIMOTHY

  American Association of Applied Linguistics, Mar. 2015, English, Toronto, Canada, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Bilingual Identity in Interaction

  GREER TIMOTHY

  ALT Hokkaido Understanding symposium on Bilingualism, Jan. 2015, English, Sapporo, Japan, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• Integrating study abroad into an academic study skills program

  GREER TIMOTHY, Sholdt, Gregory, Wang, Marion

  Study Abroad SIG Mini Conference at Task Based Learning and Teaching in Asia, May 2014, English, Osaka, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Socially accomplishing "awe" in L2 talk

  Tim Greer

  American Association of Applied Linguistics, Mar. 2011, English, AAAL, Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Chicago USA, International conference

  Public symposium


• From research to praxis: Taking conversation analysis to the classroom

  Tim Greer

  TUJ Applied Linguistics Colloquium, Feb. 2011, English, Temple University Japan, TUJ Osaka Campus, Domestic conference

  Public symposium


• Establishing reference in L2 interaction

  Tim Greer

  Japan Association for Language Teaching International Conference, Nov. 2010, English, Japan Association for Language Teaching, Aichi Industry and Labor Center, Nagoya, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Oh or awe? An interactional practice for doing being impressed

  Tim Greer

  2nd L2 Talk Workshop, Mar. 2010, English, 神奈川大学, Kanagawa University Yokohama Campus, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Codeswitching and Medium-repair among Novice Speakers of English

  Tim Greer

  Korean Association of Language Teachers (KATE) International Conference, Jul. 2009, English, Korean Association of Language Teachers (KATE), Ewha University, Seoul, Korea, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Desigigning and developing materials for English study skills

  MURAKAMI, Masayuki, YOKOKAWA, Hirokazu, TIMOTHY, Greer, UCHIDA, Mitsumi, YAMAUCHI, Mari

  第23回日本教育工学会全国大会, Sep. 2007, Japanese, 日本教育工学会, 埼玉, 日本, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• I don’t trust you but could I put it like this? Accomplishing (non)nativeness in bilingual interaction

  Greer Timothy

  10th International Pragmatics Conference, Jul. 2007, English, International Pragmatics Association, ヨルテボリ市, スウェーデン, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Switching Languages, Juggling Identities: A sequence of multilingual, multi-party talk

  Greer Timothy

  The 17th Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference, Mar. 2007, English, ホノルル市, アメリカ, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Multiethnic Identity in Interaction: A CA perspective

  Greer Timothy

  Japan Association for Language Teaching International Conference, Nov. 2006, English, 全国語学教育学会, Kokura, Kita-Kyushu, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Suppressing Laughter in the Display of (Dis)afflitiation

  GREER, Timothy, USUI, Yoshiko

  Japan Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences, Aug. 2006, English, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Accomplishing Difference in Bilingual Interaction: Translation as backwards-oriented medium repair

  Greer Timothy

  16th Sociolinguistics Symposium, Jul. 2006, English, リメリック市, アイルランド, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Post-exclusionary Translation in Bilingual Interaction

  Greer Timothy

  JALT PanSIG Conference, May 2006, English, 全国語学学会, 清水市, 日本, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Bilingual Interaction: How do they communicate in Japanese and English?

  Timothy S Greer

  Invited public lecture, Okayama University, Jan. 2006, English, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, Domestic conference

  Invited oral presentation


• Bilingual Interaction

  Timothy S Greer

  Japan Association of Language Teachers, Okayama Chapter, Dec. 2005, English, Okayama, Japan, Domestic conference

  Invited oral presentation


• Institutionally justifying an English only policy at an international school

  Timothy S Greer

  Japan Association of Language Teachers, Nov. 2005, English, Timothy S Greer, Granship, Shizuoka, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Institutionally justifying an English only policy at an international school

  GREER, Timothy S

  Japan Association for Language Teaching National Conference, Oct. 2005, English, 全国語学教育学会, 静岡, 日本, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Bilingual Interaction”. Presented at the Japan Association for Language Teaching Okayama Chapter monthly meeting, Okayama, Japan,

  GREER, Timothy S

  Japan Association for Language Teaching, Feb. 2005, English, 全国語学教育学会, 岡山, 日本, Domestic conference

  Invited oral presentation


• Multi-ethnic Identity in an International School

  Timothy S Greer

  Japan Association of Language Teachers, Nov. 2004, English, Tezuka University, Nara, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Multi-ethnic Identity in an International School

  GREER, Timothy S

  Japan Association for Language Teaching National Conference, Nov. 2004, English, 全国語学教育学会, 奈良, 日本, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Adapting the Doman Method with PowerPoint

  GREER, Timothy S

  Japan Association for Language Teaching National Conference, Nov. 2004, English, 全国語学教育学会, 奈良, 日本, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Accomplishing Discursive Identity in Bilingual Interaction

  GREER, Timothy S

  Japan Association for Language Teaching National Conference, Nov. 2004, English, 全国語学教育学会, 奈良, 日本, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Accomplishing discursive identity in bilingual interaction

  Timothy S Greer

  Japan Association of Language Teachers, Nov. 2004, English, Timothy S Greer, Tezuka University, Nara, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Stylized Japanese English among Multiethnic Japanese

  Timothy S Greer

  TUJ Applied Linguistics Colloquium, Feb. 2004, English, Temple University Japan, Tokyo, Japan., Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Stylized Japanese English among Multiethnic Japanese

  GREER, Timothy S

  TUJ Applied Linguistics Colloquium, Feb. 2004, English, 全国語学教育学会, 東京, 日本, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Ways Multi-ethnic Japanese teenagers discursively index cultural Identity

  GREER, Timothy S

  Japan Association for Language Teaching Hokkaido Conference, Nov. 2003, English, 全国語学教育学会, 札幌, 日本, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Using Peer-reviewed Group Portfolios for Speaking

  Timothy S Greer

  Japan Association of Language Teachers, Nov. 2003, English, Granship, Shizuoka, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Using Peer-reviewed Group Portfolios for Speaking

  GREER, Timothy S

  Japan Association for Language Teaching National Conference, Nov. 2003, English, 全国語学教育学会, 静岡, 日本, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• Multi-ethnic Identity and an English-only Policy at an International School

  GREER, Timothy S

  The First International Conference on Pedagogy and Learning, Oct. 2003, English, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Multi-ethnic Japanese Teenagers: Bilingual conversation and identity

  GREER, Timothy S

  The JALT Hokkaido Forum on Bilingualism, Jun. 2003, English, 全国語学教育学会, 札幌, 日本, Domestic conference

  Invited oral presentation


• Transcription Approaches to Multi-lingual Discourse Analysis

  GREER, Timothy S

  The Kyoto JALT Pan-SIG conference,, May 2003, English, 全国語学教育学会, 京都, 日本, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• Co-constructing Identity: The use of 'haafu' by a group of bilingual multi-ethnic Japanese teenagers

  GREER, Timothy S

  The 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, May 2003, English, Arizona University, Tempe, アメリカ, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Co-constructing Identity: The use of 'haafu' by a group of bilingual multi-ethnic Japanese teenagers

  Timothy S Greer

  4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, May 2003, English, Arizona State University, Pheonix, Arizona USA, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Multicultural Japan

  GREER, Timothy S

  Hokkaido University International Summer School, Jul. 2002, English, 北海道大学, 札幌, 日本, Domestic conference

  Others


• Half or Double? Chosen and Ascribed Referents for 'Biracial' Japanese

  GREER, Timothy S

  The Bilingual Development Forum, Kyoto, May 2002, English, 全国語学教育学会, 京都, 日本, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Biracial Identity: Second Language, Third Culture

  Timothy S Greer

  Japan Association of Language Teachers, Nov. 2001, English, Kokura, Kita-Kyushu, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Biracial Identity: Second Language, Third Culture

  GREER, Timothy S

  Pan-Asian Conference 3 at JALT2001, Nov. 2001, English, 全国語学教育学会, 小倉, 日本, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Dangerous English

  GREER, Timothy S

  Public lecture series: The English You Didn’t Learn in School, Jun. 2001, English, 北海道大学, 札幌, 日本, Domestic conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation

• Conversation Analysis Network in Asia (CAN Asia)

  2015 - Present


• The International Society for Conversation Analysis

  Jan. 2018


• エスノメソドロジー・会話分析研究会


• International Pragmatics Association


• 全国語学教育学会(JALT)

• Second-language Practices in Instructional Cooking Environments (SPICE): Materiality, Embodiment and Interactional Goals

  T・S Greer

  JSPS, JSPS, 基盤研究(C), Kobe University, Apr. 2026 - Mar. 2030, Principal investigator


• Simulating the Wild through Experiential Language Learning (SWELL)

  GREER Timothy

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kobe University, 01 Apr. 2024 - 31 Mar. 2025

  This project examined how Japanese learners of English work together and communicate in English during roleplay activities and group tasks. Using video recordings from interactive and content-based classes, we explored how students manage conversations and document the challenges they face. The findings suggest ways that English language education can benefit from incorporating real-world learner practices.


• Simulating the Wild through Experiential Language Learning (SWELL)

  T・S Greer, Hauser Eric, BURCH Alfred.Rue

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kobe University, Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2025, Principal investigator


• Interactional Engagement in EFL Oral Proficiency Testing

  T・S Greer

  学術研究助成基金助成金／基盤研究(C), Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2020

  Competitive research funding


• 留学生の授業外第二言語使用－会話分析の観点から―

  T・S Greer

  科学研究費補助金／基盤研究(C), Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2015

  Competitive research funding


• An Ethnomethodological Investigation into Interactional Practices among Novice Speakers of English

  GREER Timothy S

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Kobe University, 2006 - 2008

  本研究はミクロ社会科学の観点から初心者レベルで第2言語として英語取得者の相互行為を解明する事を目的とした。中でも「繰り返しとしての受け取り」、「スピーキングテスト中の順番取り」、「英語と日本語の切り替え」等といった会話上の運用プラクティスの実態を明らかにした。データとしては、日本人と外国人の間、教室内外に行う自然な会話を録画・録音し、会話分析の使用によって分析する。

  Competitive research funding


• Developing a curriculum for the introduction of English study skills in early tertiary education

  YOKOKAWA Hirokazu, UCHIDA Mitsumi, YAMAUCHI Mari, MURAKAMI Masayuki, GREER Timothy

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kobe University, 2005 - 2007

  This research project aimed to foster basic study skills in English for foundation level university education (especially among first year university students) by formulating a curriculum and syllabus and developing a variety of educational materials which consciously and constructively apply multimedia and accumulated know-how to the task of managing such classes. As one form of innovative university English education, the materials were developed based around fundamental research on pedagogy and learning in order to promote the acquisition of English study skills at the beginning university level. Some of the distinctive features of this research include, (1) an applied focus on the introductory university level, (2) the application of previous research into early university education, where students have already been taught English to some degree, but where individual differences in academic ability and a diversity of learner needs exist, and English language education must be able to cross into various specialist fields, (3) a research team with a background in not only language education but also specialist fields such as psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics working in conjunction with experts in educational technology, meaning that they were able to develop teaching materials that address more than simply English education. Specifically, ten themes were set based around core Language Skills, and the curriculum was organized from the viewpoint of IT-Related Skills, Sound Focus, Grammar/Vocabulary Focus and an individual Project. Based on that curriculum, a pilot edition of a set of educational materials was developed, entitled "First Steps in Academic English Skills- an introduction to academic skills in English" .

  Competitive research funding